Can you make this post "sticky"? On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 2:36:44 PM UTC-4, Clinton Gormley wrote: > > Hi all > > Recently we've had a few spam emails that have made it through Google's > filters, and there have been a calls for us to change to a > moderate-first-post policy. I am reluctant to adopt this policy for the > following reasons: > > We get about 30 new users every day from all over the world, many of whom > are early in their learning phase and are quite stuck - they need help as > soon as possible. Fortunately this list is very active and helpful. In > contrast, we've only ever banned 34 users from the list for spamming. So > making new users wait for timezones to swing their way feels like a heavy > handed solution to a small problem. Yes, spammers are annoying but they are > a small minority on this list. > > Instead, we have asked 10 of our long standing members to help us with > banning spammers. This way we have Spam Guardians active around the globe, > who only need to do something if a spammer raises their ugly head above the > parapet. One or two spam emails may get through, but hopefully somebody > will leap into action and stop their activity before it becomes too > tiresome. > > This isn't an exclusive list. If you would like to be on it, feel free to > email me. Note: I expect you to be a long standing and currently active > member of this list to be included. > > If this solution doesn't solve the problem, then we can reconsider > moderate-first-post, but we've managed to go 5 years without requiring it, > and I'd prefer to keep things as easy as possible for new users. > > Clint >
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